120 years since the Entente cordiale - past inactive alive

The British-French Pact called Entente cordiale was at the beginning of the 20th century 1 of the foundations for the formation of balance on the European continent. The increasing German Empire, which had previously managed to break up specified powers as Austro-Hungary in the war of dominance in the German Union (then as the Kingdom of Prussia itself), and then in the war with France, which showed that it was now Berlin that grew up to be the strongest player on the old continent.